| David Gray – Transformation Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I am struggling with this song. I imagine two meanings. One, he's returning to childhood through make-believe and play with his daughters. Protected in the play he's free to shed the meaningless adult world to be whoever his imagination (or his daughters' game) allows him to be. He is transformed into an entirely different person, and in doing so coming back to his true child self. Two, as the body prepares to die. The soul sheds the body and ascends, the transformation is complete. The soul can live anywhere, can be everywhere, can experience the excitement of pure love. |
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| David Gray – Freedom Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's about learning someone you love is dying and the vow you take to celebrate every moment they have left with them. It's about the process of living through the illness to the dying. And how can anything else have meaning when this huge thing has just taken over your life? You're racing against time, trying to get all the love you can out of each moment, but knowing that each moment is one closer to the end. The death is the freedom from the disease, freedom from the pain of illness, for the person who is gone - for those left it's the beginning of the bondage of grief, not freedom at all. And after the death, you run from the pain of the loss and keep in motion to keep yourself sane. You fumble through days not knowing what's meaningful anymore, what matters. I love the line, "...and if I close my eyes I can still see you dancing - laughing loud and undiminished..." I see you as you were before you got sick; that's how I will honor and remember you. |
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| David Gray – Ain't No Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree elleemmee, he's not guided by love, he's being guided by fear and desperation. He wants to see the beauty, to feel the love, to trust in god but can't stop looking at everything too closely and critically, obsessing until it all becomes absurd and disgusting. I think it's about times in our lives when depression and self doubt and anxiety rule all our thoughts and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. We are after all, only tiny specks in a ruthless universe, right?! |
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| David Gray – The Other Side Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song to me is about an alcoholic or drug addict who wants to get sober. It's about them begging their loved one to take another chance and trust them when they say they can quit whatever it is they're using and get to the other side. It's about the promises and mirage of a good life that fade away into the blur of being high, the regret and remorse an addict feels each time they try to get sober and can't. The addict never means to harm those they love. They're asking their loved one to change themselves as well, to look within and root out the ghosts and resentments that kill love, to realize they can't change the past, only the future. The addict can't offer any assistance even to the person they love the most because they know they can't even help themselves. And how can you love someone else if you don't even love yourself? How can you know love if you don't even think you're loveable? They're asking the person they love most to try one more time and trust that they can get to the other side. Haunting, so sad, so tragic. I love this song. | |
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